Try to be conspicuously accurate in everything, pictures as well as text. Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting.

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

It is to be feared that the most of us know not how much glory may be in present grace, nor how much of heaven may be obtained in holiness on the earth.

Our body is a well-set clock, which keeps good time, but if it be too much or indiscreetly tampered with, the alarm runs out before the hour.

Whatsoever thou takest in hand, remember the end, and thou shalt never do amiss.

You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.

I have not a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices.

If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

Misery travels free through the whole world!

A little public scandal is good once in a while. It takes the tension out of the news.

On his weary couch Fat Luxury, sick of the night's debauch, Lay groaning, fretful at the obtrusive beam That through his lattice peeped derisively.

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

Hannibal, as he had mighty virtues, so head he many vices; . . . he had two distinct persons in him.

It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

To see what is right and not to do it, is want of courage. -Confucius Analects.

Be aristocracy the only joy: Let commerce perish--let the world expire.

Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares.

In difficult and hopeless situations the boldest plans are the safest.

For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.